Liverpool City Council has been fined for data protection offences. The local authority has been fined £300 under the Data Protection Act (DPA) after the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) brought a prosection.

Controversial music website Allofmp3.com is being sued by a collection of record labels. The suit has been filed in a New York court against the Moscow firm, which claims that it abides by Russian law.

The Home Office has overturned its decision to create a large single computer for its controversial national identity register (NIR), opting to use existing databases instead. It had previously said that existing systems were flawed.

Sony BMG will settle a US lawsuit over its Digital Rights Management software for $750,000. The payment will end the suit brought against the record company by the attorneys general of Los Angeles county and California.